Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-03
MRS. GREENS MILLIONS.
She has Added to them in chicago
as Well as in New York.
From no Chicago R.rald.


From rxs Chicago H.rald.
uo+,~ Green. the richest woman in
.oric. comes TO Chicago once In
uhila To stteud 10 her enormous real es-
40 interests here. When In town she
',su.IIy stops at the Southern Hotel,
S,,hIe mt respec able hostelry, where
takes a room without fire. aud for 1t,
wiIb board, pays$1 % a day. The last time
Nc Green was here the weather chanceu
~ he wintrv, but she went around town
Uoaring an old black straw hat, a black
voiI and an old shawl. sometimes sue
atoms with sister-ln-ia" on Ihe west
S,de a moor woman, who has pretty
80 strnggle to get along. Stopping
.tUa is even cheaper for Hetty than at
tno ntherp Hotel. When at her sisters
sbe does her own washing to save laun-
!" frst after the great fire OF 1871 Mrs.
croan loaned about 100000 on Chicago
real estate, gifted ged, and at stin rat OF
interest. On portion OF tnese loans sue
LILY foreclosed. and gradually pur-
nhssrd other property, until her total in
0astment here reached something like
sSoo 00O. This property is now worth
'oorlv a million. Much of it is down.
own business property, earning hand
soma revenue. 1t is to look after this
nronerty that Mrs. Green occasionally
YYisits Chicago. Her agent never knows
when size is coming, as she has habit OF
dronninp in on him unawares. She is
- vaTy kpen old woman. She GOES about
% hniidng after building, inspecting
walIs and floors, looking alter the work
n the ianitOrs, etc. Her last visit to
Chicago is greatly regretted by colored
ianitor employed in one OF her buildings.
He saw cranky-looking old woman
rrowling about the premises one day,
aud. not getling sat sfactory replies to
his interr0gatorles, ne thre" net into Tue
street Toe ianitor was not discouraged
no was a faithful man-but he had bis
sues cut down 81 a week, and they have
been cut ever since.
Mrs Green is an inveterate speculator.
When the activity In Wall street began
last fall she left her Jew Hampshire farm
ard went TO New York in order TO be near
the speculative heart. 10 avoid hotel bills
in the civ she went to a cheap boarding.
house at Far ROckaway. Mrs. Green
never willfully wasted dollar since she
rame into the possession of the fortune oil
her father who slew whales tor a living.
Whaling was big business In the days
when Mrs. Green's grutf parent sent craft
ont from New b dtord and pulled his
CLAW uipe until they came back with
raryO4s OF oil to add to his big
nile, w men ne W6uI u6uC6 uG 10 L pO,UUO.-
Geo to his daughter, Hetty, and an aunt
OF the latter subsequently added $6,000.-
900 more when she babe adieu TO worldly
cares. Miss Hetty, tor she was a SPINS
ter then, did not let her heap of gold mil
dew. She kept it in such constant use
that the milling was worn off the edges,
and when she welded she could have
spned her name TOR check for 100000
900 |. IL had pleased her to do SO. just as
al, fnI VNyo oh.
resumed her mOneV-makin9 ways, and
succeed in adding $4,000, 600 more to
her fortune. She proposes to continue
her money getting occupation as long as
she is spared to do it.
She was formerly the great power in the
stock OF the Pniladelph and Reading
railroad, winch is now prominent in stock
sp culatiVe OPERATORS. Sue cOrnered it
With or ,at re- uIarIty about three tlmes a
year. and made spectators who were
short of it pay for being on the wrong
side. Every one OF her stock squeeZers
brou bit vast prOIits to her, and she nat
ulaltV caused repetltlOnO them as often
as Practicable. When she had extracted
| all she Dud from Reading as her stock
she transferred her operations to the
stock OF the Il uisvile and Nashville rail-
road. Her operations in Louisville,
| 10 use the brokers' abbreviation. have
up and down, and made hundreds upon
hundreds of thousands of dollars by the
| process. There nas been big, long bull
movem ut Ia Louisville during the past
few months. II mas been said all along
that the steady rise in the stock was due
TO buying for London account. There is
now, however, little doubt that Mrs.
Green has been the power at work in the
stock.
She is estimated to have made al least
100000 10 her big deal. The stock was
moved up in the lace of adverse condi.
lions, for the showing Of the road has not
been good. The only thing tnat Mrs.
Green tad in her favor was the general
market, but that would not have carried
the stock up. The operation was plain
one, but 1t required great boldness and
the use OF vast sums OF money. The
street at large had no confidence in Louis
vile, and was disposed to bear 1t. The
nlgner 1t went the greater the drop would
De, SPECTATORS thought, and they kept
Increasing the short interest.
Mrs. Green bought the stock that the
pears went short OF. The bears had to
borrow to make their deliveries to Mrs.
green. They relied on smash in the
Price TO buy the stock to return that
when they mad borrowed, and they also
hoped 10 buy at less price than they
oetween the selling price ard the buying
price would have represented the profit OF
we bears. The smash, however, never
came. Mrs. Green had a grip on the
stock like iron. She kept walking the
price up untll sne had got the bears all
scartd. They saw their losses getting
UIgger, and finally began to try to return
tneir borrowings before their position be-
came even worse than it was. Mrs.
VA
required, anu the difference between the
price at which she bought AMI the price
al wn!c1 she sold represented her profit
ana the loss of the bears.
MRS. Green dresses as comfortably as
On INDUSTRIOUS washerwoman, but no
more iashlonably. She wears her clothes
. uinll they are worn out, and by that
s siuie tney are ready for the paper mill.
mo- ,e I E down town III horse car, and
"a, n nave with her $l,0O0,0O0 ia bonds
S"he up IN piece OF spaper. No
T, odH would suspect her OF being worth